The Intelligent Economy
Conversations about the economy taking shape around us, where AI, automation and data are quietly changing how value gets made. We look at where intelligence really comes from, whether people, processes, platforms or machines, and search out an ethical path forward.
The Premiere
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Intelligence as the Factor of Production
Why the thing that creates value is no longer labour or capital, but the capacity to think.
When Software Starts to Act on Its Own
Autonomous systems are redrawing the boundaries of the firm. What still needs a human in the loop?
The New Shape of Managerial Work
As judgement is augmented, management becomes the design of good decisions at scale.
Provenance Beats Content
When anything can be generated, knowing where something came from becomes the scarce and valuable thing.
Organisational Memory as a Moat
When everyone can reach the same models, what a firm remembers becomes its real advantage.
Capability Over Credentials
How continuous learning is replacing the static qualification as the unit of economic value.
Read Alongside
Intelligence as the Factor of Production
The next economy will not be defined by labour or capital, but by intelligence: how we create it, organise it, augment it and turn it into value.
Where the Firm Ends
If software can plan and act, the old case for holding work inside a company starts to wobble.
Managing When the Model Has an Opinion
Augmented judgement turns management into the quiet craft of designing better decisions.
Who Vouches for This?
When anything can be generated, the receipt matters more than the artefact.
What Your Organisation Forgets
Everyone can reach the same models, so the advantage shifts to what a firm actually remembers.
The Half-Life of a Qualification
Static credentials age badly in an economy that rewrites roles every few years.
The next economy will not be defined by labour or capital, but by intelligence: how we create it, share it, and choose to use it well.
Featured Guests
The Intelligent Economy
There is a shift underway that is easy to feel and hard to name. As AI, automation and data-driven decisions become the engine of growth, advantage moves to those who can create, organise and apply intelligence well. The useful question is no longer whether the technology is coming, but where the thinking in your organisation comes from, how well you look after it, and what an ethical path forward actually looks like.
Each episode takes one part of that story and works through it carefully, with people who are doing the work rather than commentating on it. No hype, no doom, just clear thinking about what is changing, what it asks of us, and how to get it right. Your host is Dr. Michael D’Rosario, who works across economics, AI, public policy and data science as Head of Research at Prosper Australia, Director of Econometric Analysis and Data Science at Per Capita, a lecturer on the Adelaide University MBA, Executive Education Lead for Evidence in Public Policy at Oxford, and an Industry Facilitator on the LSE AI Accelerator.
“AI and automation are the big story of this decade. But you cannot read that story properly without seeing the intelligent economy underneath it, and asking where the thinking comes from.”
